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by alttag 14y ago
Not just the small guys. Behavior like this may have (in part) led Apple to ignore Adobe's Flash. Five years later, Flash is dying a slow death.
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by alttag 14y ago
From the code it was clear the password was 12 numeric digits. Chunks of the password (of equal size, see the code) were stored in multiple chunk servers. From crashing the program or reading the code, it could be determined there were four
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by alttag 14y ago
I received an explanation of the level 8 vulnerability via private chat, after hanging around in IRC for ~10 hours. By that point, I knew about (and easily implemented) SSH, and had inferred several other useful tidbits, but didn't quite un
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by alttag 14y ago
This was difficult to accomplish when server usage was high. There were a couple of ways to deal with this. For the first chunk, a diff of 2 meant the first chunk server returned false, as the change in port #s meant no other network traffi
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by alttag 14y ago
Every time I move. Your point is well taken, though.
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by alttag 14y ago
I've done some work with a local (university) police force that used bait bikes. They'd attach a GPS device, secure it with a poor lock, and wait a couple of days. I went with them once to track down where the stolen bike was parked. Every
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by alttag 14y ago
I enjoy the occasional social as much as they next guy, but as I get older, my family becomes more important. Is it the case that the majority of employees have fewer external social attachments? Do you (OP, or anyone else here) think the i
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by alttag 14y ago
True, many things, including strategic focus and market selection, can lead to success or failure, but certainly HR policies have some effect in favoring/repressing innovation, collaboration, and truth to power.
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by alttag 14y ago
How does this affect the "contract employees"? I'm guessing they don't get the bonuses, but do they get rated? Microsoft still has a high rate of contractors (and I count some friends and relatives among this number), although less since th
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by alttag 14y ago
There have been several articles posted here at HN that complain (rightly, IMNSHO) about stack ranking and the inner turmoil it engenders. (For example, why share a shortcut or automation if using it when others do not makes you appear supe
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by alttag 14y ago
That will cause you to miss some behavior if internal URLs ever change that users bookmarked or remember. As an example, a TV station site I follow had a /fullepisodes/ basename page which wasn't updating in sync with their show pages, appa
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by alttag 14y ago
Yes, and no. As OP points out, in order to optimize, there must be something to measure. This is Google saying the benchmark is what they'll be using as a measuring stick internally (and likely, in their marketing against competing browsers
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by alttag 14y ago
... Yeah, me too. If you check out the "about" page [1], there's IRC info at the bottom [2], so there may be hints there. 1: https://stripe-ctf.com/about 2: irc://irc.stripe.com:+6697/ctf Edit: the IRC helped. the issue isn't ruby, sinatr
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by alttag 14y ago
A scientist might say, "There is evidence of causation." Typically in scientific research, to assert causation three things must be true: 1) Correlation, 2) Temporal ordering (for A to cause B, A must come before B), and 3) Sufficient the
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by alttag 14y ago
I was at an academic conference recently where an researcher I respect was talking about paper reviews at a top journal much the same way. His point, if I can attempt to do it justice--was that we sometimes get so caught up in proposing way
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by alttag 14y ago
One of the things that won't change immediately, but will change over the long term is the availability of people familiar with MySQL. With the cost structure described in the article, MySQL will start disappearing from university database
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by alttag 14y ago
Not if you don't have an account.
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by alttag 14y ago
Doesn't that assume no compression in the transfer? Surely, if streaming compression is getting better, there's some lossless compression that can be used for display signals?
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by alttag 14y ago
I don't particularly like the trend of sites offloading their commenting mechanisms to Twitter, Facebook, DISQUS, etc. If it's Facebook, I'll never see it, due to browser plugins. Twitter is often too short for a good conversation, but if y
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by alttag 14y ago
Maybe I missed it, but the things that would convince me are a) a large, strong community, b) extensive documentation, and c) code examples in the article. Seeing no references to any of these, I don't find the article terribly persuasive.
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by alttag 14y ago
Interesting. The GP's usage is aligned with every instance I've encountered over the past 20-odd years (in the U.S.), while the Wikipedia entry appears to have a European focus and is starkly different from my understanding of U.S.-ian deno
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by alttag 14y ago
On the contrary, for a great many sites (low impact) I'm happy that they finally figured out to use my email address as a username. As a usability feature, it's much nicer than having to guess at whether my standard usernames are taken.
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by alttag 14y ago
I'm not quite understanding all of the hate on Galdwell, in the parent, the OP, and generally. You (parent) have glossed over one of the GP's points: Galdwell shares some credible scientific research via the popular press. Yes, there is und
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by alttag 14y ago
Which makes it near-perfect for Facebook (more capital from the sale), but less-so for shareholders, particularly those looking to make a buck on a quick flip.
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by alttag 14y ago
I did (learn something), but not knowing what "Py" was, there were no other context clues in the headline. HN is friendly to researchers too, so the setting is appropriate for the other interpretation of the acronym (and makes the football
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by alttag 14y ago
Nice and all, but I clicked the link wondering why Institutional Review Boards were being tossed, seeing as how they're required by federal law to oversee ethics in research at publicly funded universities.
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by alttag 14y ago
I've heard it said by several politicians in political speeches. (Not to start a partisan battle, but it my recollection, they were primarily U.S.-ian Democrats.) It's typically couched as a social responsibility to hire, or a responsibilit
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by alttag 14y ago
I had this discussion with a guy who is now the state superintent of public education. Our discussion led to classroom visits of about 10 minutes per instructor, multiple times each semester. Evaluation criteria were: 1) Are learning object
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by alttag 14y ago
Yes and no. While I agree that it's introduced some problems in states where I've lived (Utah, for example), it's also allowed parents to move their children around a bit more easily, and there are some benefits to that. On the flip side,
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by alttag 14y ago
Judging by the ranges, it's my guess that these are not extremes, but possibly 25/75 quartile marks. The methodology isn't clear, so we don't know how the data were aggregated/culled, but it seems that +/- 3 SD data, at least, were stripped

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